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Art

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

Emily Wilson - March 9, 2023

Groundbreaking Chicana artist traces path of her Berkeley retrospective.

Art

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

Emily Wilson - March 6, 2023

Catharine Clark Gallery's tag-team show gives artists prompts to set their own table—with real food accompaniment.

Crime

A new attack on SF’s sanctuary laws makes no sense—except as a political tool

Tim Redmond - February 15, 2023

Immigrants have been scapegoats for much of US history, and now Breed and Jenkins are doing it again.

Movies

Nikyatu Jusu mines the precarity of immigrant labor for terror in ‘Nanny’

Pam Grady - December 1, 2022

"If every domestic worker stopped working tomorrow, a lot of people's lives would fall apart in this capitalistic system," the director says.

Movies

Screen Grabs: The rambunctious talents of Elaine May

Dennis Harvey - September 6, 2022

Plus: African Film Festival, cinema and histories of incarceration, the Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, more movies

Onstage

Home is fragile: ‘Sanctuary City’ director on anxiety and love in immigrant existence

Lou Fancher - July 18, 2022

David Mendizábal brings costume and choreography background to story of two entangled DREAMers at Berkeley Rep

Movies

Screen Grabs: DocFest’s local focus includes Jeff Adachi, Hyphy, Aquarius Records

Dennis Harvey - May 29, 2022

Our guide to the 21st bonanza. Plus: Castro Theatre's 100th birthday. a 'lesbian El Topo,' and the adult voyage of Bella Cherry

Housing

Supply sophistry: How academics miss the point on the cost of urban housing

Zelda Bronstein - April 27, 2022

There is still no good evidence that upzoning leads to more affordability—in New York or in San Francisco.

Elections

It’s Election Day Tuesday. The supes districts lines are still not finished.

Tim Redmond - April 17, 2022

Plus: Are the cops doing their job, and do they really need more money? That's The Agenda for April 18-24

Crime

An embarrassment of injustice: Innocent man pleads guilty to crimes he didn’t commit to get out of long prison sentence

Tim Redmond - March 16, 2022

José Inez García Zárate was found not guilty of homicide by an SF jury and has spent seven years behind bars. Now he's facing conviction in federal court.

Tagged with: undocumented

Glitter-strewn resistance: Amalia Mesa-Bains talks beauty

In ‘Sobremesa,’ a chain of artists serves up china dumplings, doughy ducks, plum branches

A new attack on SF’s sanctuary laws makes no sense—except as a political tool

Nikyatu Jusu mines the precarity of immigrant labor for terror in ‘Nanny’

Screen Grabs: The rambunctious talents of Elaine May

Home is fragile: ‘Sanctuary City’ director on anxiety and love in immigrant existence

Screen Grabs: DocFest’s local focus includes Jeff Adachi, Hyphy, Aquarius Records

Supply sophistry: How academics miss the point on the cost of urban housing

It’s Election Day Tuesday. The supes districts lines are still not finished.

An embarrassment of injustice: Innocent man pleads guilty to crimes he didn’t commit to get out of long prison sentence

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